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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55843
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-889-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'enigmail' package(s) announced via the DSA-889-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'enigmail' package(s) announced via the DSA-889-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Hadmut Danish discovered a bug in enigmail, GPG support for Mozilla MailNews and Mozilla Thunderbird, that can lead to the encryption of mail with the wrong public key, hence, potential disclosure of confidential data to others.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain enigmail packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.91-4sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.93-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your enigmail packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'enigmail' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3256
BugTraq ID: 15155
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15155
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#805121
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/805121
Debian Security Information: DSA-889 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-889
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:226
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:028 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/211-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2158
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